WESTWOOD HOUSE WOOTTON BRIDGE,

WESTWOOD HOUSE BROCKS COPSE ROAD, WOOTTON BRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT A STRIKING AND SUBSTANTIAL EDWARDIAN COUNTRY HOUSE OCCUPYING A QUIET AND SECLUDED SETTING WITH GOOD ACCESS TO THE SOUTH COAST.

GROUND FLOOR Reception Hall • Drawing Room • Sitting Room • Dining Room • Garden Room • Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Study • Butler’s Kitchen • Boot Room Play Room • Utility Room • Shower room • Orangery with indoor barbeque kitchen • Games Room

Indoor Pool Complex with jacuzzi, sauna, steam room and changing rooms

FIRST FLOOR Landing with Study Area • Principal Bedroom Suite with dressing room and bathroom • 6 further bedrooms • 4 further bathrooms

OUTSIDE Offices providing a potential annexe • 2 Double garages • Workshop • Tractor Shed and Boat Store

Gardens and grounds of approximately 6.6 acres

Waterside House 1 Jewry Street 72A High Street, Winchester Isle of Wight PO31 7RE SO23 8RZ TEL: 01983 200 880 TEL: 01962 841842 [email protected] [email protected] www.spencewillard.co.uk www.savills.co.uk WESTWOOD HOUSE numerous golf courses and renowned shoots. There are also Westwood House was built in 1910 for the Managing Director an array of historic and other tourist attractions, including of renowned Cowes ship building company, Samuel White. nearby . The house was also owned by Mark King of Level 42. Set The property occupies an attractive rural location about in magnificent mature grounds, the principal rooms all a mile from the north coast of the Island on the fringe of benefit from southerly views over formal gardens and Wootton Bridge. Wootton Bridge has a range of local shops, the countryside beyond. The house is approached via with more extensive shopping in , Newport and a long private driveway leading through parkland to a . There are nearby sailing and mooring facilities on large gravelled turning/parking area. The house provides , East Cowes & Cowes and public schools in beautifully appointed and spacious accommodation with Ryde and Whippingham. many original features remaining, including fireplaces and stained glass in the Art Nouveau style. There are a number of elaborately moulded ceilings to the principal rooms. When the house was built it is likely to have had open views to the north over Kings Quay and , which can still be enjoyed during the winter months.

SITUATION The Isle of Wight has very good connections with London being accessible within 2 hours. The A3 provides easy access from London to Portsmouth, from where there are a number of car and passenger ferry routes to the Island. Train services lead from London Waterloo directly to Portsmouth Harbour station, from where the catamaran runs. Westwood House is well-located for access to mainland ferry links:

Portsmouth to Fishbourne (approx. 2.5 miles) – a car and passenger service. Journey time approx. 45 minutes.

Southampton from East Cowes (approx. 3 miles) – car and passenger ferry service approx. Journey time 1 hour.

Portsmouth to Ryde (approx. 4.5 miles) – a fast catamaran passenger services. Journey time approx. 22 minutes.

Southsea to Ryde – a passenger hovercraft service. Journey time approx. 12 minutes.

The Island benefits from both extensive scenic countryside and coastlines, much of it designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In addition to being world famous for its sailing and watersports, including the Cowes Week regatta, the Island provides a wonderful environment for an array of outdoor pursuits including beautiful coastal and country walks, riding and mountain biking with ACCOMMODATION kitchen including a griddle, hob, kitchen units with granite in a large parking and turning area to the front of the worksurfaces and extractor with French doors to the house with a spur to the west, leading to a range of timber GROUND FLOOR garden and an adjacent GYM/GAMES ROOM, great for outbuildings including TWO DOUBLE GARAGES, a The house is accessed via an ENTRANCE HALL with an entertaining. WORKSHOP/GARDEN STORE and a BOAT STORE. The impressive central staircase, fireplace, oak flooring, ornate principal, formal gardens lie to the south of the house and ceiling and has access through the GARDEN ROOM to the Commissioned for the Millennium the POOL COMPLEX comprise a large, gravelled terrace overlooking the sunken formal gardens. is an impressive addition to the eastern end of the house, gardens with ornamental, lily pond and a series of shaped which comprises a substantial indoor swimming pool with lawns, borders and gravelled paths, with various garden The spectacular DRAWING ROOM is triple aspect with extensive tiled surround designed for year-round use and with statues and urns. ornate ceiling and impressive original fireplace along with access to the garden. Also providing SAUNA, STEAM ROOM, an outlook to the south and with access to the garden. An JACUZZI, CHANGING ROOM and PLANT ROOM. There is lapsed planning for a helipad, landing and hangar. adjacent SITTING ROOM with decorative plasterwork to the ceiling has a large south facing bay window with distant Adjacent to the pool complex is the self-contained OFFICE/ In all, the property extends to approximately 6.6 acres country views and an original fireplace. To the western STUDIO area comprising 2 rooms as per the floorplan (2.67ha.) end of the house is a BUTLERS KITCHEN with hob, oven, which has its own kitchenette and bathroom with potential POSTCODE PO33 4NP dishwasher and built in units to conveniently serve these as an annexe, subject to the necessary consents. reception rooms. SERVICES Mains water, electricity and gas. Private FIRST FLOOR drainage. Gas fired central heating and two private wells. The large formal DINING ROOM also has a wide window A spacious LANDING provides a study area whilst the providing southerly views over the gardens and beyond, fine MASTER BEDROOM SUITE has a DRESSING ROOM, TENURE Freehold decorative plasterwork ceiling and fireplace housing a jet EN-SUITE BATHROOM and wonderful views, including NOTE 4 original chandeliers and garden statuatory are master gas fire in an elaborate surround. A large KITCHEN/ seasonal outlook over Kings Quay and the Solent. There are available by separate negotiation. BREAKFAST ROOM has a woodburning stove and access a further 6 BEDROOMS and 4 BATH/SHOWER ROOMS. to the garden, and there is a STUDY, BOOT ROOM, PLAY VIEWINGS All viewings will be strictly by prior ROOM, UTILITY ROOM, SHOWER ROOM and TWO OUTSIDE arrangement with the joint selling agents Spence Willard & CLOAKROOMS. A gated and gravelled driveway sweeps through the Savills. To the eastern end of the house and forming a link with grounds, flanked by grassed areas with potential to provide the pool complex is an ORANGERY now subdivided paddocks and interspersed by mature trees making for to provide a further seating area with inside Barbeque a delightful and private setting. The drive culminates

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